"Bus Angels" : teaching children to spy on children
The scheme include 'Bus Angels' aged 14 and above, who covertly
report incidents of bad behaviour,
Peter Daniels, transport manager at Denbighshire County Council
said: "The main aims are to support schools, drivers,
parents and pupils on school buses to improve behaviour and
enable them to understand the consequences of some of the things
they do.
"I have to say in north east Wales we don't really see
trouble and misbehaviour, but in the afternoon some of the pupils
can be jolly and minor anti-social behaviour can occur, or from
time to time something more serious. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5205662/Children-tracked-by-sat-nav-to-stop-bad-behaviour.html

Databases on children will be used against them --"ContactPoint"
The disclosure has led civil liberties campaigners to warn the
entire database will be open for investigators to
trawl for evidence that links young people to crime or
anti-social behaviour.
Investigators opening a ContactPoint
file would be able to see at a glance where they
had lived throughout their childhood, where they had gone to
school, what contact they had with social services and who their
parents or carers were, and use the information to link them to
known gangs or areas of criminal or anti-social activity.
Baroness Miller, the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman in
the House of Lords, said: "This is truly shocking.
It's exactly the definition of a police
state. The police will have the details of a
whole generation for so-called crime prevention.

Microchipping Students Backpacks
Ed: They provide it free, so no one can legislateEach chip would be programmed with a student
identification number, and would be read by an external device
installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be
fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.
He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could
use easily available RFID readers to
find out students' private information and monitor their
movements.http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html

School cameras linked to police and 911 centers
Mayor Daley on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster school security
by linking 4,500 school cameras to police
districts, squad cars and the 911 emergency center.
Chicago's existing surveillance network includes more
than 10,000 public and private cameras. Adding school
cameras will boost that number by 45 percent,
[ Ed: total of 14,500 cameras ]
creating an integrated camera network
that Police Supt. Jody Weis said has "evolved into a
national model."
The $418,000 upgrade is being financed by federal Department
of Homeland Security funds. It follows the shooting at
Northern Illinois University and a weekend that saw four CPS
students shot and killed and five others wounded in separate
shootings.http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/830445,CST-NWS-skulsecur07.article

Every child numbered for life -- unique learner number (ULN)The new database  which will store a
tamper-proof CV  will be known as MIAP (managing Information Across Partners).
To be registered on the new database every 14-year-old will be
issued with a unique learner number. Unlike the current unique
pupil number now given to children in school but destroyed when
they leave, the ULN will be used by government agencies to
track individuals until they retire [ Ed: unto death, and even after]
. Ultimately, it will create a numbered
database for every citizen aged 14-plus in
the UKhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3359931.ece
1. The scheme is one ofthree huge projects
that will allow the Government to keep a closer check on
citizens. The national identity register
2. NHS National health records
3. ULN every child numbered
4. Existing databases hold huge amounts of
information on citizens. One of the biggest is the Department
for Work and Pensions customer information system,
which holds about 85 million records, including the personal
details of anyone with a national insurance number [ Ed: a Social
Security Number ] . It has the full income and personal details
of anyone in receipt of benefits, including 11.5 million with
state pensions, 2.65 million on incapacity benefits and 4 million
who claim either pension credit or income support.
5. Driver's License database
6. Passport Authority database
7. Revenue & Customs
holds the names and addresses of six million people who make tax
credit claims http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3359926.ece

Fingerprinting
children at borders "Current plans envisage taking a child's
fingerprints at the age of six but security officials
predict that records will be taken at younger
and younger ages as the technology develops."If a good match is achieved, a second gate
opens and the traveller is allowed to cross the border. If there
is not a good enough match, or any other problem occurs, the gate
does not open [ Ed: traveler is imprisoned between two gates
] and the traveller is directed for processing
[ ED: whatever that means ] by a border guardhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/14/nfingerprint114.xml

Technology driving a wedge between parents and children; spouses too"You can even remotely lock and unlock the
car door from your computer, and you can disable the ignition.
How humiliating would it be to your teen driver if you flashed
the lights or blew the horn to get his or her attention? It
simply requires the push of a key on your computer. (There's no
reason this couldn't work on a spouse as well.) Another feature
auto-notifies when your teen driver has exceeded a predetermined
speed limit or drives to a restricted address"http://www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=41658

Tracking kids in schools and on buses AT&T envisions the
system being used to track in-school assets like computers,
projectors, laptop computers, and lab equipment. But the company
is also pitching the technology as a means to track
students and people directly,enforcing
attendance and tracking visitors on school grounds (including
alertingadministrators to people in
unauthorized areas). The system is designed to tie in with existing 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless
networking solutions and display
tracking information via a Web-based portal.
Curiously, nowhere in AT&T's description of
the technology does the company mention the privacy rights of
students, or any ability for students or parents to
opt out of such a system. We imagine the company is leaving such
policy decisions up to individual schools and districts. http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/15112/printer_friendly/att_offers_gps_and_rfid_child_tracking

Rumor: UK parents want to verichip their kids
Not covered by insurancePatients with certain chronic life threatening
diseases are being solicited as subjects for the device and there
are rumors afloat in the UK that soon
parents will be solicited to offer up their children to the
technology. Yet to be approved by insurance
companies as a covered procedure, the concept is still relatively
new for use in people but based on the ongoing push by the
company and its placement of chip readers in the hands of
doctors, insurance company approval is strictly a matter of time.http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/05/24/verichip-ready-for-a-breakout/

Children age 11 and up to be fingerprinted
CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and
stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.
The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting
will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply
for passports.
The Home Office expects 545,000 children aged 11 and over to have
their prints taken in 2011, with the figure settling at an annual
495,000 from 2014. Their fingerprints will be held on a database
also used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to store
the fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: This borders
on the sinister and it shows the government is trying to end the
presumption of innocence. With the fingerprinting of all our
children, this government is clearly determined to enforce major
changes in the relationship between the citizen and the state in
a way never seen before. The leaked plans envisage 90 new enrolment centres for the
ID card scheme on top of the existing network of passport
offices.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1466943.ece

Melissa Busekros --victim of Police State
German swat team kidnaps girl from home; mandated to a
psycho-ward; no visitation for a month.
Parents finally allowed to visit 1 day a week at undisclosed location An international human rights group has announced
that Melissa Busekros, the 15-year-old German homeschool student
taken by a SWAT team from her home and ordered into a psychiatric
ward by a judge, for the first time in nearly a month will be
able to meet with her parents

They warned that "what
is happening in Germany today may be knocking on our door
tomorrow." The group is tracking the
circumstances of about 40 families in Germany with court cases in
various stagesThornton told WND in a telephone interview from
Germany that he is working with the family and their counsel in
an attempt to resolve the abduction of the girl by a
SWAT team of 15 officers from in front of her shocked family.This is a precedent that's going
to affect not just Germany," Thornton
said. "This is an extreme case, even for Germany, but it won't be extreme any more if they get
away with it." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54377

Texas Governor Richard Perry STILL wants mandated vaccine ( for
other people , of course )
Ed: It is immoral to mandate what goes into another person's
body.On Feb. 2, Perry issued an executive
order requiring Texas girls entering the
sixth grade as of 2008 to have the new Gardasil vaccine, produced
by Merck & Co., that protects against strains of human
papilloma virus.http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8NE7GA03.htm

Texas, Florida to mandate Gardasil vaccine to 11 year old + girls -- disregarding democracyTALLAHASSEE Top Florida lawmakers want
every 11- and 12-year-old girl in the state to get a vaccination
that would protect them before they risk getting a sexually
transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
The proposal, backed by Republicans and Democrats, mirrors
legislation under consideration in about
20 other states, including Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry
issued an executive order Friday that bypassed state lawmakers to mandate the
vaccine

'This might be too fast,'' Myers said. ``There are many moral,
ethical and social issues that have not been fully discussed
yet.''
A number of Christian activists say they're concerned that the
measure -- though it would allow parents to opt out -- would
nevertheless promote promiscuity in children. And they point out
the legislation right now benefits just one pharmaceutical firm,
Merck & Co.[ Carol ] Griffin [ Eagle Forum] also questioned the
claims of Merck, which faced lawsuits over
claims about the safety of the drug Vioxx, and just
won approval for Gardasil in June [2006, less than a year ago ] .
Gardasil is in use in a number of state and federal programs for
the poor.''What's this going to do to people in 20
years?They don't know. There are
side effects,'' Griffin said, echoing similar concerns
from the Florida Catholic Conferencehttp://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/elections/16631033.htm

Iris databank on 5 million children The addition of Galveston County is part of an
effort to image the irises of 5 million
children into a nationwide database over the next few
years, said Robert Melley, vice president and CEO of Biometric
Intelligence & IdentificationMullin said an iris has 235 identifying
characteristics  flecks and spots  that are
unchanging after the age of 1. Kevin O'Reilly, spokesman for
Mullin's company, said there was one chance in about 200 million
of an incorrect match.http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4432083.html

Fingertip access from BioGuard and BioSchool ; also BioHospital The beauty of a system like this is that you do
not need to remember pin codes, take a key, or have a proximity
card which can often be misused; instead you just use your
fingertip. The system can be used to replace passwords on a
computer, adding greater security since passwords are often
passed around between employees. "This is 100 percent
verification. You can be sure the only person who gains access is
the person who is authorized to do so," Ofer Gol, the CEO of
BioGuard told ISRAEL21c. "That's
very important."
The system is also designed to be user friendly. The fingerprint
can be rotated 360 degrees, which means that unlike many
biometric solutions, you do not have to place your fingertip at a
specific angle.

Another interesting application is BioSchool,
which is designed to prevent truancy, control
entry to certain areas, such as the science and
computer labs, or the washrooms, and to
identify parents arriving to collect children from
school. Each child is fingerprinted as they come to class. If
a child does not show up, an SMS is sent out to the parents
informing them that the child has not arrived

The system has already been introduced to schools in Singapore
and also the UK where parents can be fined or even jailed if
their children repeatedly skip school.

Investment teaching --what will
they do when 666 enters the equation ??For short-term goals, we should consider
low-risk investments such as certificates of deposit that mature
about the time we'll need the money.
For medium-term goals, mutual funds that invest in
dividend-paying stocks can be appropriate.
For longer-range goals, we can consider a wide variety of
possibilities, from stocks to government and corporate bonds to
longer-term CDs. http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_4529766

DNA database shares information ( UK )
The Home Office is under fire for allowing foreign agencies
access to the National DNA Database (NDNAD).
Following the news two weeks ago that the ID card database will
be shared, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokeswoman Lynne
Featherstone asked in parliament whether foreign law enforcement
can already access DNA data. Home Office minister Joan Ryan
confirmed that since 2004 they had received 519 requests for UK DNA data from abroad.
No records are available from before that time, she added.Carrying the profiles of around 3.5m people, including
more than half a million children under 16, it is the world's
largest law enforcement DNA database.

High Tech Campuses ... toilets too
UTCC is the first university in Thailand to use smart card
technology for both campus administration and payments. Other
uses of the card are for course registration, library services,
to check grades, class admission and payment at vending machines
on campus.
The card also contains personal data such as a student's blood
group, medical records, and insurance. In the future, it is
expected to be used for mass transportation on Bangkok's skytrain
and subway. Another use is for security of notebooks.
"Every lecturer has a notebook computer, and once
the card is ready it can check the ID of the notebook.
If the notebook and ID don't match, it will immediately raise an
alarm," explained Dr Chiradet, adding that the security
system is being developed in-house

Other uses include paying for parking and
toilets at Siam Paragon and Maboonklong
Shopping Centre. ( Ed: What do they do ? Identify each
toilet containment for drugs, meds, pregnancy etc. ?? How much
time spent in wash room ?
Who else was there at the same time? etc. This plus fiber optic
and infrared cameras that are unobservable ?)
Thai Smart Card chief commercial officer Chatchai Chatchaiganan
expected the number of card-holders to increase to one million
this year. http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/20Sep2006_data001.php
High Tech High Standing outside the entrance with students
huddled before him, Street echoed Grover's call for higher
standards at the Future school, which will incorporate technology
in nearly every way - from having students swipe cards to eat in
the cafeteria to art and music instruction to sports teams that
will use electronic-play diagrams.http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/15469414.htm

Philadelphia (MS ) "School of the Future " First announced three years ago,
the new school and its technology left students in jaw-dropping
awe: A laptop for every child. Lockers that open with the swipe
of a smart card. A fully wireless building. Virtually no
textbooks. Not even an encyclopedia in the library.You won't be able to say, 'I didn't have
the computers. I didn't have the technology. I didn't have the
teachers. I didn't have mentors,' because the young people who go
to this school will be in the premier educational environment in
the entire country, maybe even in the entire world," Street
said. "So the bar for you is raised." [ Ed: but can they read a
book ? ] http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/15469414.htm

Booze : Destroying the minds
of our young people
Bud TV -- OnlineBud.TV will engage contemporary adult consumers
with a wide array of entertainment options in branded and
original proprietary content including new humorous webisodes,
sporting events, consumer-generated content, field news reports,
celebrity interviews, music downloads and comedian vignettes. The
first-of-its-kind initiative is slated to launch in February
2007, and more content providers will be announced in the coming
monthshttp://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X522004

Billy Graham : IDs for children 9-14 Ed: we do not believe in any organized form
of IDs..even under the excuse of religionPrimary among these resources is an evangelism
training kit, which is based on the biblical story of Daniel and
includes a study guide and an interactive CD-ROM. Upon completion
of the study guide, each child receives an ID card and
opportunities to take part in more activities through a special
Internet site.http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1417205.html

UK fingerprinting children as young as Five years old
British children, possibly as young as six, will be subjected to
compulsory fingerprinting under European Union rules being drawn
up in secret. The prints will be stored on a database which could
be shared with countries around the world.
The prospect has alarmed civil liberties groups who fear it
represents a 'sea change' in the state's relationship with
children and one that may lead to juveniles being erroneously
accused of crimes. Under laws being drawn up behind closed doors
by the European Commission's 'Article Six' committee, which is
composed of representatives of the European Union's 25 member
states, all children will have to attend a finger-printing centre
to obtain an EU passport by June 2009 at the latesthttp://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1833543,00.html

Ed:
This sure ain't Mom fixin up a batch of cookies .....Child Smart ID -- June 11, 2006 ( Ed: an e-ID card ... watch out !!! )
see AX ... and also ID"Melissa Kulesz of Tioga, a small town in Dallas
County [ Texas ] , used that notion to start her own business, Child
Smart ID, last year.
Kulesz collects information from parents and makes a credit card-like record. The card contains
the child's digital photograph and thumbprint, height, weight,
eye and hair color, birthmarks, scars, any medical conditions and
parents' names and phone numbers."[ Ed: they only left
out the urine sample, blood specimen and DNA;
For practical purposes it would have to have a
unique ID number for database checking
]
"They won't get torn, tattered or waterlogged if they go
through the washing machine, Kulesz said. She also provides an
electronic copy that can be sent to authorities
elsewhere in the country"
[ Ed: from the
local to the global ]http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/14794201.htm

The rights and wrongs of chipping childrenMichael Litwak summed up the feelings of many of
them. "Is paranoia what we wish to teach our children?"
he wrote, adding: "How much restraint will the next
generation show, when it's their turn to do the monitoring? Let's not sell out real liberty for the false promise of
greater security." http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39122136,00.htm

Palm data on students Ed: Overdosing on snooping ...
from sun-up to sun-down; ugh ! what a way to live !Snooping-drug is becoming
addictive with those in advantage
Using her Palm Pilot, Bernd Elementary School principal Carol
Bloodworth writes in the name of a student and within seconds,
the child's photo, birth date, homeroom teacher, bus number
and parents' phone number pops up on the screen.
All 485 of her students' pictures and personal information on
them are stored on the calculator-sized device.

An officer would have access to students' discipline
records, schedule, medical history and parents' phone numbers
right away.
Also, school officers wouldn't have problems with students'
giving false information and they wouldn't have trouble getting
student information after
school hours, when there are
incidents during athletic events or school functions, he said.http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/14580689.htm

"Ready Kids" and "Rex" .... Government ( HS ) kits for kidsEd: Will
"chipping children" be a part of this kit? Did
Narnia-hype pave the way for "Rex" ?We're going to be talking about things during the
course of this campaign like having emergency supply kits
for families, having family plans about where to go and where to
meet in case of emergency," [ Michael
] Chertoff told some 75 schoolchildren, their parents
and journalists at Andrew Jackson Language Academy.Written materials featuring the mascots have been
sent to 135,000 teachers to explain how families
should collect water, food, a radio, a flashlight, batteries,
books, games and other supplies to last three days.

my
comments in red with brackets
Belt-device or watch: external
GPS tracking of kids
When home and school become a prison.
"parents scrambling for ways to make sure young children
don't get out of the house without Mom and Dad's knowledge.
Applied Digital Solutions Inc. of Palm Beach, Fla., has come up
with the VeriChip, a subdermal microchip the size of a grain of
rice that can be comfortably implanted just beneath the skin of a
child, adult or pet. The chips can be removed without
scarring."[ Ed: I doubt it ! They boast of
"bio-bond" adhering to the tissue in your body. It
would hurt like heck and leave a scar taboot to remove Verichip ,
in my opinion ]
"That science will soon be combined
"[ Ed : two different
devices: one internal, one external ]
"with satellite Global Positioning System technology to
produce a system that can locate anyone, anywhere,
anytime"
[ Ed : designed for control-freaks
][ the internal subdermal VeriChip
cannot locate anyone by GPS ]

Kate Kelly's book on to much hi-tech surveillance of kids
The Schmidts use a service called Teen Arrive Alive, one of a few
companies that work with Nextel wireless phones and a tracking
service from uLocate Communications Inc.
Other devices that track on-the-go kids include the Wherifone, a
specialized locator phone that uses the Global Positioning
System, and the CarChip, a device about the size of two nine-volt
batteries stacked together that, installed in a vehicle, monitors
speed, distance and driving habits.

Kate Kelly, author of "The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager,''
doesn't blame them."Normal spouses don't hire private detectives to
track the whereabouts of their mates, and parents who have done
their jobs in establishing good relationships with their teens
shouldn't be using extraordinary high-tech devices to follow
their teens,'' Kelly says. "You've got to create a
relationship built on trust, not fear.''http://www.livescience.com/technology/ap_050906_kid_track.html

NIJ Nat'l Institute of Justice Youth System
Schools are like prisons, more everydayThe Departments vision for improvements are
"integrated physical security
systems," which would include"non-obtrusive sensors" to
detect drugs and weapons, as well as to track students, staff,
visitors, and intruders on school grounds. It also asks
applicants to develop systems that enable law
enforcement personnel to track the time and place
that students enter and exit school buses.In one of the more controversial areas of the
grant solicitation, the NIJ states that "non-cooperative"
identification and tracking is preferred over a
"cooperative" system. A non-cooperative
identification system captures and tracks personal or biometric
data automatically, without a person knowing that they have been
screened by a surveillance system

"They're going for prisons, they're going
for the schools; they're going for the military; they're
going for the people who are not in a position to say
no," Albrecht told The
NewStandard. "And who is less in a position
to say no than a child? I think it's
absolutely unconscionable, absolutely unethical."

MATRIX .. the ultimate dossier ( Mike
Leavitt --Utah ) MATRIX  Multistate
Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange  is an intranet
database regarded as the nation's largest cyber-compilation of
personal records. It is touted as an efficient
crime-fighting tool that allows agencies to access information
with just a nimble fingertip.
Searchable databases allow law enforcement
agents to probe for people using Social Security
numbers, dates of birth, addresses, property records, motor
vehicle information and credit history. The
information is collected by states and forwarded to a
database in Florida, where a private company, Seisint Inc., builds and
manages the database.http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590039368,00.html

Drug companies want to use children as guinea pigs The so-called "Regulation on Medicinal
Products for Paediatric Use", which could become law by
2006, lays down procedures to encourage pharmaceutical companies
to carry out more research on children's medicineAnother reason why medicine is not normally
tested on children is that it is considered a morally
delicate issue. Fears that a new pharmaceutical
market for childrens medicines may be created has been
expressed by doctors.
"Drugs should never be given to children if there
are any doubts about their benefits, and if there are any
alternatives", said representatives of Critical Psychiatry Network
in a press release from April earlier this year.http://euobserver.com/?aid=19796&rk=1

MealPay; Parents monitor what kids eat at school In a growing number of states, parents can now
find out what their kids are eating using an electronic payment
system called MealPay.
Kids punch in a personal ID, and parents can go online
to see how much their kids are spending and what they're eating.For example, parents can add a comment to limit
their children to one bag of chips or allow them none at all.
Experts warn some kids will resent having their diet
on remote control.http://wcco.com/seenon/local_story_240112759.html